Backfires | The Assassination of Julius Caesar

Published: July 16, 2019, 7 a.m.

In the year 44 BC, Julius Caesar, Rome’s self-proclaimed, ‘Dictator For Life’ was assassinated by his very own Senate. The assassins celebrated as the Roman Empire was finally free of Caesar, who they saw as the ‘unstable dictator bringing the downfall of Rome’. To their surprise, the citizens of Rome did not share this distaste for the once ruler. In the end, the Senate's actions decided the fate of their own lives as well as the entire Roman Empire.